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"It's a burn. Anytime electricity goes through a substance that doesn't conduct electricity well, it heats it up. And so the entire path the lightning, the electricity takes through your body will burn parts of your body and cause damage," Marquette University professor Dr. Chris Stockdale said.

The Kenosha County Sheriff's office said at first they had trouble identifying Prehn because she had no ID on her and was unconscious.

"The mother called in. She heard about someone who was struck by lightning. She wasn't able to get a hold of her daughter, her 22-year-old daughter, and the mother called in and by a tattoo, she said that sounds like my daughter," Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said.

Prehn was seriously injured and was taken to Northern Illinois MedicalCenter for treatment and has since been moved to Loyola University Medical Center.

"This is definitely a once in a lifetime career kind of call. You don't normally get people who have lightning strikes and survive or have lightning strikes period," paramedic Kevin Myers said.